How the Street's calls on oil services played out
Sell-side price targets on oil services names over the last two years, checked over each firm's own horizon: 120 of 333 resolved targets (36%) were reached while they stood, 203 were replaced by the same firm first, and 10 fell short at their deadline.
5 names · 14 firms with 8+ resolved targets here · checked through 2026-10-29. Rebuilt every morning.
Firm by firm on oil services
| # | Firm | Targets reached | Replaced early | Short | Resolved | Ratings vs sector | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Piper Sandler | 13 (43%) | 17 | 0 | 30 | 2 of 2 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB |
| 2 | Citigroup | 9 (30%) | 21 | 0 | 30 | 3 of 4 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB |
| 3 | Susquehanna | 9 (21%) | 34 | 0 | 43 | 4 of 5 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB |
| 4 | Barclays | 6 (13%) | 40 | 0 | 46 | 2 of 4 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB |
| Stifel | 8 (31%) | 18 | 0 | 26 | 3 of 4 | BKR HAL NOV SLB | |
| UBS | 5 (22%) | 18 | 0 | 23 | 1 of 1 | BKR FTI HAL SLB | |
| RBC Capital | 12 (54%) | 9 | 1 | 22 | 3 of 5 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB | |
| Evercore ISI Group | 7 (39%) | 10 | 1 | 18 | 2 of 2 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB | |
| TD Cowen | 4 (29%) | 10 | 0 | 14 | 3 of 3 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB | |
| JPMorgan | 7 (54%) | 5 | 1 | 13 | 3 of 4 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB | |
| Wells Fargo | 3 (27%) | 7 | 1 | 11 | 3 of 4 | BKR HAL NOV SLB | |
| Morgan Stanley | 8 (80%) | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 of 1 | BKR HAL NOV SLB | |
| Goldman Sachs | 5 (50%) | 5 | 0 | 10 | 3 of 4 | BKR FTI HAL NOV SLB | |
| Jefferies | 4 (44%) | 4 | 1 | 9 | 3 of 4 | BKR FTI HAL SLB |
Numbered firms have 30+ resolved targets in this sector and are ordered by the share reached; the rest are listed by volume, unranked. A record inside one sector is a slice of a slice: none of these counts is a measure of skill, and none carries a letter. How targets and ratings are checked →
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Every call is checked on the firm's own terms. A price target is followed until its own deadline (12 months unless the firm publishes a different horizon) and ends as reached (the stock closed at or beyond it while it stood), replaced (the same firm set a new target first) or short at deadline. A rating is compared with the stock's sector SPDR ETF on total return over the rating's life, because most big-firm ratings are relative: Overweight means "beat its peers", not "go up". Hold-type ratings are tracked, not graded. A firm is numbered only with 30+ resolved targets, and a letter prints only for a firm's whole record where an exact test separates it from a coin flip. None of this is a verdict on anyone's skill, and one day is never a grade. The full method →
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